Alabama period () A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic. |
Blindman's holiday () The time between daylight and candle light. |
Catskill period () The closing subdivision of the Devonian age in America. The rocks of this period are well developed in the Catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology. |
Champlain period () A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period |
Chemung period () A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs. See the Diagram under Geology. |
Hamilton period () A subdivision of the Devonian system of America |
Holiday (n.) A consecrated day |
Holiday (n.) A day of exemption from labor |
Holiday (n.) A day fixed by law for suspension of business |
Holiday (a.) Of or pertaining to a festival |
Holiday (a.) Occurring rarely |
Niagara period () A subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system, embracing the Medina, Clinton, and Niagara epoch. The rocks of the Niagara epoch, mostly limestones, are extensively distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of shale supporting a greater thickness of limestone, which is gradually undermined by the removal of the shale. See Chart of Geology. |
Owing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Owe |
Owing (P. p. & a.) Had or held under obligation of paying |
Owing (P. p. & a.) Had or experienced as a consequence, result, issue, etc. |
Period (n.) A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies |
Period (n.) A stated and recurring interval of time |
Period (n.) One of the great divisions of geological time |
Period (n.) The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act |
Period (n.) A complete sentence, from one full stop to another |
Period (n.) The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word. |
Period (n.) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals. |
Period (n.) The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission. |
Period (n.) A complete musical sentence. |
Period (v. t.) To put an end to. |
Period (v. i.) To come to a period |
Salina period () The period in which the American Upper Silurian system, containing the brine-producing rocks of central New York, was formed. See the Chart of Geology. |
Season (n.) One of the divisions of the year, marked by alternations in the length of day and night, or by distinct conditions of temperature, moisture, etc., caused mainly by the relative position of the earth with respect to the sun. In the north temperate zone, four seasons, namely, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, are generally recognized. Some parts of the world have three seasons, -- the dry, the rainy, and the cold |
Season (n.) Hence, a period of time, especially as regards its fitness for anything contemplated or done |
Season (n.) A period of time not very long |
Season (n.) That which gives relish |
Season (v. t.) To render suitable or appropriate |
Season (v. t.) To fit for any use by time or habit |
Season (v. t.) Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices |
Season (v. t.) To fit for taste |
Season (v. t.) Hence, to fit for enjoyment |
Season (v. t.) To qualify by admixture |
Season (v. t.) To imbue |
Season (v. t.) To copulate with |
Season (v. i.) To become mature |
Season (v. i.) To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance |
Season (v. i.) To give token |
Trenton period () A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America |
Vacation (n.) The act of vacating |
Vacation (n.) Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office |
Vacation (n.) Intermission of judicial proceedings |
Vacation (n.) The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms |
Vacation (n.) The time when an office is vacant |
package tour package holiday | a tour arranged by a travel agent, transportation and food and lodging are all provided at an inclusive price |
busman's holiday | a holiday where you do the same things you do at work |
course session class period recitation | a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study |
vacation | the act of making something legally void |
period piece | any work of art whose special value lies in its evocation of a historical period |
vacation home | a dwelling (a second home) where you live while you are on vacation |
commutation ticket season ticket | a ticket good for several trips or to attend a season of entertainments, sold at a reduced rate |
period point full stop stop full point | a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations, in England they call a period a stop |
resort resort hotel holiday resort | a hotel located in a resort area |
resort area playground vacation spot | an area where many people go for recreation |
menstruation menses menstruum catamenia period flow | the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause, the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation, a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped--Hippocrates, the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females--Aristotle |
time period period of time period | an amount of time, a time period ofyears, hastened the period of time of his recovery, Picasso's blue period |
trial period test period | a period of time during which someone or something is tested |
Quaternary Quaternary period Age of Man | last million years |
Tertiary Tertiary period | from million to million years ago |
Cretaceous Cretaceous period | from million to million years ago, end of the age of reptiles, appearance of modern insects and flowering plants |
Jurassic Jurassic period | frommillion to million years ago, dinosaurs, conifers |
Triassic Triassic period | frommillion tomillion years ago, dinosaurs, marine reptiles, volcanic activity |
Permian Permian period | frommillion tomillion years ago, reptiles |
Carboniferous Carboniferous period | from million tomillion years ago |
Pennsylvanian Pennsylvanian period Upper Carboniferous Upper Carboniferous period | frommillion tomillion years ago, warm climate, swampy land |
Mississippian Missippian period Lower Carboniferous Lower Carboniferous period | from million tomillion years ago, increase of land areas, primitive ammonites, winged insects |
Devonian Devonian period Age of Fishes | frommillion to million years ago, preponderance of fishes and appearance of amphibians and ammonites |
Silurian Silurian period | from million tomillion years ago, first air-breathing animals |
Ordovician Ordovician period | from million to million years ago, conodonts and ostracods and algae and seaweeds |
Cambrian Cambrian period | from million to about million years ago, marine invertebrates |
Precambrian Precambrian eon Precambrian aeon Precambrian period | the eon following the Hadean time and preceding the Phanerozoic eon, from about , million years ago until million years ago |
vacation holiday | leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure, we get two weeks of vacation every summer, we took a short holiday in Puerto Rico |
half-holiday | a day on which half is free from work or duty |
paid vacation | a vacation from work by an employee with pay granted |
period | the end or completion of something, death put a period to his endeavors, a change soon put a period to my tranquility |
neonatal period | the first days of life |
latency stage latency phase latency period | (psychoanalysis) the fourth period (from about age or until puberty) during which sexual interests are supposed to be sublimated into other activities |
day twenty-four hours twenty-four hour period -hour interval solar day mean solar day | time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis, two days later they left, they put on two performances every day, there are , passengers per day |
lunchtime lunch period | the customary or habitual hour for eating lunch, he observed a regular lunchtime |
holiday | a day on which work is suspended by law or custom, no mail is delivered on federal holidays, it's a good thing that New Year's was a holiday because everyone had a hangover |
religious holiday holy day | a day specified for religious observance |
High Holy Day High Holiday | Jewish holy days observed with particular solemnity |
legal holiday national holiday public holiday | authorized by law and limiting work or official business |
bank holiday | any of several weekdays when banks are closed, a legal holiday in Britain |
gestation gestation period | the period during which an embryo develops (about days in humans) |
refractory period | (neurology) the time after a neuron fires or a muscle fiber contracts during which a stimulus will not evoke a response |
silly season | a time usually late summer characterized by exaggerated news stories about frivolous matters for want of real news |
overtime period | a period of overtime play to resolve a tie, e.g. basketball |
season time of year | one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions, the regular sequence of the seasons |
growing season | the season during which a crop grows best |
holiday season | a time when many people take holidays |
high season peak season | the season when travel is most active and rates are highest, they traveled to Europe in high season |
off-season | the season when travel is least active and rates are lowest |
rainy season | one of the two seasons in tropical climates |